35 Ibid.



720

36 Oesterley and Robinson, Hebrew Religion: Its Origin and Development, p. 65.



721

37 Ibid., p. 128. See also Nielsen, Die altarabische Mondreli-gion und die 
mosaische Ueberlieferung 1904, p. 50.



722

38 Ibid.



723

39 Ex. 12: 12–28.



724

40 Deut. 16: 1: «Observe the month of Abib and keep the passover unto the Lord 
thy God». See also Oesterley and Robinson, p. 128; Nielsen, Handbuch der 
Altarabischen Altertums-kunde, 1927, i, 244.



725

41 Propp, Exodus 1 —18: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, p. 
392.



726

42 Ex. 12: 9.



727

43 Ex. 12: 46.



728

44 Oesterley and Robinson, p. 131.



729

45 Nielsen, The Site of the Biblical Mount Sinai: A claim for Petra, 1928, p. 
21.



730

46 Ibid., p. 23.



731

47 At the Council of Nicea in AD 325 it was decided that since the Last Supper 
is thought to have occurred on the feast of the Passover (most probably on the